The role of water in homogeneous catalytic processes mediated by water soluble Ruthenium complexes

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A large number of chemicals are currently obtained by catalytic synthetic processes, but usually in most of these processes the catalyst remains in the reaction medium during the whole cycle. The catalyst cannot be easily recycled and the products are usually contaminated by metal contaminants, with economic and environmental consequences. Hydrosoluble catalysts provide an attractive solution to these issues. The water soluble complex [RuCpCl(PTA)2] was found to be an excellent and versatile catalyst. Its reaction mechanisms have been studied in detail, but traditional experimental techniques (e.g. NMR, IR, UV) do not provide sufficient information on how water participates in the process. Neutron diffraction in the 0.1-50 Å-1 range offers a unique insight in this aspect. We propose to measure the [RuClCp(PTA)2] compound in water at two concentrations.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24091293
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24091293
Provenance
Creator Dr Silvia Imberti; Professor Antonio Romerosa Nievas; Dr Franco Scalambra
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2013-07-26T12:22:27Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-10-09T08:54:13Z